2013

Firefox Smartphone

… to be sold on Ebay.Hot topic today. I must have skimmed 100 headlines before I gave up on selecting one.Take your pick  Google News Go get it.

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“If you prefer to use a webmail interface such as those provided by Gmail, Hotmail or Yahoo! Mail, you probably know that you cannot really secure your data directly when you are using those services. The majority of popular webmail services do not support email encryption for instance which would protect the content of messages from being read by automated tools and anyone else with access.“Mailvelope is a free browser extension for Google Chrome and Mozilla Firefox that introduces OpenPGP encryption to webmail services that you may be using. The extension ships with support for Gmail, Yahoo! Mail, Outlook and…

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Firefox Release Update: August 3rd, 2013

Just Released None Coming Soon August 6th Firefox 23 Firefox for Android 23 Firefox 17.0.8 ESR Firefox 24 Beta (24.0b1)* Firefox 25 Aurora (25.0a2)* Future Releases September 17th Firefox 24 Firefox for Android 24 Firefox 24.0.0 ESR Firefox 25 Beta (25.0b1)* Firefox 26 Aurora (26.0a2)* * As part of the new Rapid Release Schedule,dates listed for Aurora and Beta builds reflect when the code merge is set to begin. The actual release to that particular channel may vary by several days.

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Thunderbird Release Update: August 3rd, 2013

Just Released None Coming Soon August 6th Thunderbird 17.0.8 Thunderbird ESR 17.0.8 Thunderbird 24 Beta (24.1b1)* Thunderbird 25 Earlybird (25.0a2)* Future Releases September 17th Thunderbird ESR 24.0.0 Thunderbird 24.0.0 Thunderbird 25 Beta (25.0b1)* Thunderbird 26 Earlybird (26.0a2)* * As part of the new Rapid Release Schedule,dates listed for Earlybird and Beta builds reflect when the code merge is set to begin. The actual release to that particular channel may vary by several days.

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How to make sure that a Firefox plugin never activates (again)

“The web is moving away from plugins which is a good thing as it reduces the risk of falling pray to security attacks that target old versions of plugins or use 0-days to attack even the latest versions. Some plugins do cling on however despite the move to HTML5 and JavaScript. Especially Java and Flash need to be mentioned here, but chance is that your browser picked up quite a few plugins along the way. “Firefox is still picking up plugins that get installed on the system automatically which can be quite problematic if you do not want the browser…

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Display Android notifications on the desktop

“… If you work on a PC throughout the day, you may not have time to look at your phone all the time. Or, you may not be allowed to use your phone at all while you are working.“Desktop Notifications is an application for Android that you use in conjunction with a Mozilla Firefox add-on or Google Chrome extension. It uses the browser’s desktop notification feature to display all notifications that you receive on your phone on the desktop.“While you cannot react to it in any way, it at least lets you know about notifications so that you either know…

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Firefox OS Phones Released In Europe

Again, we aren’t going to be seeing these or the possible Firefox OS (aka Boot to Gecko or B2G) tablet in the US anytime soon. One phone, ZTE Open was released in Europe today ..the ZTE Open will hit the Spanish market on July 2 and will be priced at €69 with a €30 pre-pay balance thrown in for good measure. The device boasts a 3.5‐inch, HVGA TFT touchscreen display and has 256MB RAM and 512MB ROM combined with a 3.2MP camera and a 4GB microSD card. via Tom’s Hardware

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No Small Text for Firefox: set a minimum font size for all web contents

I have used the NoSquint one for a long time. I like the ability to change the colors on individual pages. For instance, pages that I spend a lot of time on that have a huge expanse of glaring white I change to gray. “Starting with Firefox 22 the web browser is now respecting the display scaling of the operating system which may have changed how the browser UI and websites are displayed on user systems. The linked article highlights how you can change the size of fonts in the browser so that they appear larger or smaller on the…

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Thunderbird 17.0.7/17.0.7esr Released

Mozilla has released the next updates for Mozilla Thunderbird with versions 17.0.7 and 17.0.7esr (Thunderbird for Organizations) on June 25th, 2013. Fixes in this version include Various security fixes. Depending on the operating system and update settings (Tools > Options… > Advanced > Update Tab), users will be prompted to update within in the next 48-hours. Windows users can also go to Help > About Thunderbird and click the Check for Updates button. Users can choose to manually download and install Thunderbird via getthunderbird.com. The next scheduled release will be Thunderbird 17.0.8 and 17.0.8esr on August 6th, 2013.

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Reminder: Firefox is FREE

Most of you are likely thinking along the lines of “Duh, of course Firefox is free. What kind of idiotic post is this?” Truth be told there are scammers and hackers who have put up sites which make you to pay to download Firefox.  Some people may not know any better and just assume like so many other applications, Firefox is no longer free. Firefox has and always will be free.  Not only are they scamming you out of your money, but chances are the copy of Firefox they have you download is infected with malware, spyware, scareware, viruses and/or other nasty…

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